“An assessment of McCain’s plan from the Tax Policy Center (no right-wing ideologues, they) put it this way: “Workers offered insurance through their employers lose the value of the income tax exclusion but gain the credit; the combination leads to higher effective costs of insurance for some (those in the higher tax brackets or who have relatively high-cost employer-sponsored insurance) and lower costs for others (those in lower tax brackets or who have less expensive insurance).” In other words, the middle and working classes actually tend to gain at the expense of the wealthy.” — Ross Douthat, blogging in the Atlantic over Biden’s gross mis characterization of McCain’s health care policy